Stephen Jeffreys

✍ Scribed by Jeffreys, Stephen

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 211 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys, whose career stretches from an award-winning play at the National Student Drama Festival in 1977 through to an adaptation of The Alchemist for the RSC in 2016.

Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends , a comedy of manners about the property market which won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards; a riotous farce set in the time of Elizabeth I, The Clink , in which a stand-up comedian becomes involved in the political skulduggery surrounding the ailing queen; an autobiographical drama set in 1966, A Going Concern , about a washed-up family business; and Jeffreys' smash-hit, The Libertine , a Restoration romp about the licentious Earl of Rochester, much revived and also filmed with Johnny Depp.

Rounding off the volume are two previously unpublished plays: Interruptions , inspired by Jeffreys' interest in the collective aspect of politics and his fascination...